# ranger
## English
### Etymology

From range (verb) +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɹeɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈɹeɪnd͡ʒɚ/
* Rhymes: -eɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)

### Noun

ranger (plural rangers)
* One who ranges; a rover.
** A roving robber; one who seeks plunder.
* A keeper, guardian, or soldier who ranges over a region (generally of wilderness) to protect the area or enforce the law.
* (obsolete) That which separates or arranges; a sieve.
** 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:The tamis raunger.
* A dog that beats the ground in search of game.
* (military) In some modern armies, an elite soldier, similar to special forces but often operating in larger units.
* (literature, roleplaying games) A warrior character, often with wilderness and stealth skill, who typically travels the countryside.
* (roleplaying games) A character skilled in the use of ranged weapons.

#### Derived terms

* long ranger
* long-ranger
* PowerPoint ranger
* ranger file
* ranger panties
* ranger vest
* rump ranger

#### Translations

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### Verb

ranger (third-person singular simple present rangers, present participle rangering, simple past and past participle rangered)
* (rare, transitive) To work as a ranger.
** 1993, Robert Kammen, Rattlers Roost, page 59:Just like down in Texas when I was rangering, you just keep turning over rocks […]
** 2011, Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove:He saw men long dead whom he had rangered with, saw Pedro Flores and Pea Eye and a redheaded whore he had taken up with for a month in his riverboating days.

### Anagrams

* Garner, Garren, Graner, garner

## French
### Etymology 1

From rang.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁɑ̃.ʒe/
* Audio:(file)

#### Verb

ranger
* to order, to arrange
* to put away, to put aside, to stack away, to stow
* (transitive) to park (a car)
* (reflexive, se ranger) to go along
    Elle s’est rangée à son avis.She went along with him.

##### Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written range- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

##### Derived terms

* bataille rangée
* se ranger des bécanes
* se ranger des voitures

#### Further reading

* “ranger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Etymology 2

From English.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁɑ̃.d͡ʒœʁ/

#### Noun

ranger m or f (plural rangers)
* a ranger, one who looks after a region

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

ranger
* imperative of rangere

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* rangir

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese renger, from Vulgar Latin *ringīre, from Latin ringor (“I show my teeth”). Cognate with Galician renxer (“creak, grind (one's teeth)”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁɐ̃ˈʒe(ʁ)/ [hɐ̃ˈʒe(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁɐ̃ˈʒe(ʁ)/ [hɐ̃ˈʒe(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ʁɐ̃ˈʒe(ɾ)/ [hɐ̃ˈʒe(ɾ)]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ʁɐ̃ˈʒe(ʁ)/ [χɐ̃ˈʒe(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ʁɐ̃ˈʒe(ɻ)/ [hɐ̃ˈʒe(ɻ)]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʁɐ̃ˈʒeɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʁɐ̃ˈʒeɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ʁɐ̃ˈʒe.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: ran‧ger

### Verb

ranger (first-person singular present ranjo, first-person singular preterite rangi, past participle rangido)
* (intransitive) to creak (to make a prolonged sharp squeaking sound)
** 2012 (originally 2011), George R. R. Martin, Alexandre Martins (translator), Ruas Estranhas (originally Down these strange streets), Casa da Palavra, page 212:
    A maldita porta rangeu quando a abri.The damn door creaked when I opened it.
* (transitive) to grind (one’s teeth)
** 2012, Mary Bath-Balogh, Margareth J. Fehrenbach, Anatomia, Histologia e Embriologia dos Dentes e Estruturas Orofaciais, Elsevier, page 358:Em pacientes que apresentam o hábito de apertamento dental ou de ranger os dentes (bruxismo), […]In patients who exhibit the habit dental squeezing or of grinding their teeth (bruxism), […]

#### Conjugation
## Romanian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ranger.

### Noun

ranger m (plural rangeri)
* ranger